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I am trying to figure out how to complety disable the drag functionality of MetroApps/Desktop (not the whole drag and drop of files/folders) on Windows 8.1 so far no luck.

The only thing I could manage to find till now is to prevent the drag to close with those registry entries.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Switcher
MouseCloseThresholdPercent (REG_DWORD) 0
TouchCloseThresholdPercent (REG_DWORD) 0

But how can I completly disable this functionality?

Hope you can help me out.

Rand Random
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You can't easily do that. However since you mentioned that you are developing a Kiosk mode you should switch the device to Assigned Access first

In assigned access many of the shortcuts ALT+F4 and CTRL+ALT+DEL are disabled and your app will run in full screen mode, which means there is no risk to being dragged around.

The hardware Windows button is disabled as well so you are guaranteed that your app always runs as the main app.

TomEus
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